‘My daughter’s rheumatology nurse took away all of her fear’

Revalidation

Linda Thorley

Chronic heart failure part 2: treatment and management

Rebecca Brake, Ian David Jones

Using mentorship activities to assist nurses and midwives with their revalidation requirements

Sara Nicola Jolly, Simon Andrew Hyatt, Jean Ruth Dadge, Katie Summerhill

Measuring peak expiratory flow rate: what the nurse needs to know

Rebecca Myatt

‘Respect everyone around you’

Making the big move

Erin Dean

Take the lead and get involved in research

Elisabeth Jelfs

Coping with a patient’s death

Garritt Brown

Student life - When does compassion become caring too much?

Kathy Oxtoby

Pulmonary Nodule Risk

Layla Haidrani

Intellectual Disability and Being Human: A Care Ethics Model

Mick Wolverson

Stories of Dignity within Healthcare: Research, Narratives and Theories

Valerie McGurk

Tweets of the week

Nursing associates

Zoe Morgan

Learning together

Neel Sharma

After 43 years, I'm still enthusiastic about nursing

Age and experience

A portrait of compassion

Jane Everitt

The perils of alcohol

Jane Bates

Readers’ panel - Is nursing in the UK losing its appeal as a profession?

Drew Payne, Lauren Ferrier, Jane Brown, Liz Charalambous

Ensuring fair care for people with multiple sclerosis

Megan Roberts

Nursing is stronger when we work together

Howard Catton

A dangerous game

James Buchan

We must help BME staff to whistleblow

David Lewis

The high cost of cataracts

Catharine Sadler

Nursing in the Trump era

Alison Moore

Heavy alcohol use in adolescence alters brain development

Narcolepsy drug could help food addicts lose weight

Children in low-income countries have higher risk of death from emergency surgery

Social isolation linked to higher mortality rates in breast cancer

Antipsychotic drug use raises risk of death in people with Alzheimer’s disease

Physical health of people in prison

Lynne Pearce

Focus on workplace safety as staff injury bill tops £47m

Flavia Munn

Around the world

Noticeboard

Trust makes Twitter plea for off-duty staff to help in A&E

nursingstandard.com

Board game helps hone new nurses’ management skills on the ward

Story in numbers

Leading clinic reports 40% drop in HIV diagnoses

Christian Duffin

Sickness absence halved in trial of six-hour day

Erin Dean

News in brief

Pay petition nearing 100,000 signatures

Dorset trust offers nurses £5,000 relocation package to ‘leave London behind’

BME staff less likely to raise concerns in the workplace

Flavia Munn

Nurse reunited with patient she cared for sixty years ago

Prevention is better than compensation

Graham Scott